[Samba] suggestions about file ownership in multi-user "sandbox"

Matt Mitchell mmitchell at virtualproperties.com
Wed Aug 18 22:03:10 GMT 2004


Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:23:15PM -0500, Matt Mitchell wrote:
> 
> 
>>Obviously this is a feature of filesystem semantics, so my question is 
>>this: does samba provide a hook or feature, similar to the 
>>preexec/postexec script, except for a file write?  I am willing to deal 
>>with performance implications, of course.  An alternative would be an 
>>unlink-and-create-before-write approach when updating a file, though 
>>that would require samba to do some gymnastics.  I'm not aware of any 
>>such feature.
> 
> 
> Yes, you can write a Samba vfs module that only hooks write and does
> what you want.

Done.  Pretty easy, too.  Thanks!

-m



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